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NITED SATES MEDARD BREAULT, OF GOHOES, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N 0. 666,797, dated January29, 1901. Application filed May 9,1900. Serial No. 16,004. (No model.)

To (tZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that LMEDARD BREAULT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Oohoes, county of Albany,and State of New York,have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Boxes, of which the following isa specification.

The invention relates to such improvements, and it consists of the novelconstruction and combination of parts hereinafter described andsubsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the referencecharacters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several figures.

Figure l of the drawings is a View of a finished box in isometricalperspective, partly in section. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the inner sideof the top section of the box detached. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of thesame, taken on the broken line 3 3 in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a top plan viewof the box with the top section detached. I

My improved packing or shipping box is preferably made of wooden boardsand battens. Wooden packing-boxes are usually made rectangular in formwith six sides.

The object of my invention is to provide a box which shall have amaximum strength with a given weight of material.

The body of the several sides or sections of my improved box is made ofrelatively thin board rectangular in form. Secured to the side edges ofthis bod y-board is a battenframe made of battens which may berelatively thick and strong. The exterior outline or general form of thebatten-frame is similar to that of the body-board to which it issecured; but the frame is made largerthan the body, so that its exterioredges project beyond the edges of the body-board equally on all sides,as shown in the drawings, in which 1 is a body-board of a side orsection of the box.

The batten-frame on each body or side is made of four battens 3, whichare shown secured to each other at their ends by tenons. It is notessential that these ends should be secured to each other, because theseparate strips are secured to the body edges 5 of the sections, as bysmall nails or screws 6.

When the six sections forming the box are set up, they are securelybound together by large nails 7 driven across the grain of the woodthrough one batten into another, and in no instance through therelatively thin body-board.

In Fig. 4 the box is shown in plan with one side or section detached,the inner side of the detached section being exposed to view in Fig. 2.It will be seen that the body-board of the detached section will justfit into the well or countersink formed by the projecting edges of thefour batten-frames which surround it, whereby all the edges of the thinbody-board are protected and engaged to prevent lateral or longitudinalmovement of the body board or boards should the body be composed of morethan one piece.

Since all the six sides of the box are fitted in and secured inpractically the same manher, I am able to secure the maximum strengthwith a given weight or quantity of material.

When the several sides or sections of my improved box are combined inthe manner shown, the several bodies abut directly upon each other toform acomplete inclosure, and the several batten-frames abut directlyupon and are secured directly to each other, whereby they wholly incloseand protect the body edges.

I am aware that battens have been detachably secured to the corner edgesof boxes, as shown in British Patent No.1,183,of 1896, and thatfrusto-pyramidal boxes have been proposed having batten-stripsprojecting beyond the body part of the several sections on all sides, asshown in British Patent No. 24,432, of 1895, and I do not claim eitherof such forms of construction.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Abox made up of a plurality of rectangular sides or sections eachcomprising a battenframe and a body with continuous abutting edgessecured to the inner side of the frame, said sections being so combinedwith each other that the body edges of each section abut grain directlyone to another through an abutting surface, substantially as described.10

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of April,1900.

MEDARD BREAULT.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH BREAULT, HARVEY BREAULT.

